War criminal Wu Shaozhou proposed a clever plan to deal with the US military, **amnesty** When the Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950, and the flames of war inevitably spread to our country, **and** made it after careful consideration"Resist US aggression and aid Korea, protect the family and defend the country"Difficult decision-making.
Not only was this decision one of the most challenging decisions of ***'s life, but it was also a decision that required extraordinary courage and insight to make.
The course of history has also confirmed the wisdom and correctness of ***.
Despite the right decisions, we faced many challenges, such as equipment and troops. When he was troubled by formulating an operational strategy, a war criminal named Wu Shaozhou provided two strategies that opened up a new way for the tactics of the Volunteer Army.
The two strategies proposed by Wu Shaozhou played a key role in the fight against the US army, and after learning about it, he immediately ordered: "Amnesty Wu Shaozhou!" "So who is this Wu Shaozhou?
Why did his strategy get *** to give such instructions? Wu Shaozhou, who galloped from the Central Plains and won the first third-class Yunlu Medal, was born in 1902 in a rural family in Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province.
Wu Shaozhou's mother died when he was 8 years old, his father remarried when he was 9 years old, and he was raised by his stepmother, and his life was extremely difficult. In June 1917, Wu Shaozhou graduated from the third phase of Tianzhu Old Middle School and graduated in December 1921.
However, due to his family's difficulties, he was unable to continue his studies outside the province, and finally, with his father's consent, he left his hometown and was admitted to the Guizhou Student Battalion as a cadet. From then on, Wu Shaozhou left his hometown and began his military career.
Wu Shaozhou was an outstanding military general who won numerous battles with shrewd tactics and thorough preparation. He graduated from the Guizhou Jiangwutang and was promoted step by step from a trainee cadre to a platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander, and army commander.
He participated in important battles such as the Northern Expedition and the Anti-Japanese War, and before the start of each battle, he would make precise plans and full preparations. During the battle, Wu Shaozhou personally commanded his soldiers to fight fiercely against the Japanese army, and after the battle, he would humbly review the gains and losses, and convene a meeting of cadres to learn from the lessons.
In the course of constant fighting, his troops became stronger and stronger, and they always maintained good combat effectiveness and always had a good grasp of the odds of victory. In the first battle of the Anti-Japanese War, the "Nankou Campaign", Wu Shaozhou served as the chief of staff, and his performance was impressive.
The task of the chief of staff was to give advice to the division commander, but Wang Zhonglian sent Wu Shaozhou to lead a detachment of troops to fight, which is enough to prove that Wu Shaozhou's command ability is very strong.
During the eight-year war of resistance, there were few brave and wise generals in the Kuomintang army like Wu Shaozhou. Not only did he play the role of a strategic strategist, but he also led a cobbled group of troops to ask for military reinforcements, and stabilized the situation in times of crisis.
This ability is very rare among the chiefs of staff of the same army.
In the Battle of Taierzhuang, Deputy Division Commander Wu Shaozhou bravely commanded and successfully resisted the attack of the Japanese army and played an important role in defense. Although there are few records of his exploits, his performance is undoubtedly commendable.
In the task of defending the breakthrough, Wu Shaozhou successfully led the soldiers of the 110th Division to fight fiercely with the Japanese army and successfully protected the safety of the heavy artillery battalion. In 1940, Wu Shaozhou attacked Gaocheng twice in northern Hubei Province, defeated the main force of the Japanese army, recovered Gaocheng, and successfully captured the stronghold after five days and five nights of fierce fighting in the battle of Changlinggang stronghold.
As a result, Wu Shaozhou was awarded the Order of Yunlu of the Third Class by the National Military Commission, which made his subordinates fight more heroically.
In 1941, Wu Shaozhou led his subordinates to conquer Zhengzhou and Luohe. In the winter of that year, he was appointed deputy commander of the 85th Army and commander of the 110th Division. In March of the following year, he was promoted to commander of the 13th Army.
In 1943, he was transferred to the commander of the 85th Army and served as the commander of the river defense in Zhengzhou, responsible for the defense of the Yellow River. Because Wu Shaozhou's subordinates stuck to their posts, although the Japanese army was eyeing the south bank of the Yellow River, they never acted rashly.
In February 1944, the Japanese army in North China formulated a plan for the Battle of Henan, intending to invest 150,000 troops under the command of Okamura Ninji. The puppet army Zhang Lanfeng and Sun Liangcheng also cooperated in the Bianxin area.
On February 19, an advance advance team and the main force of the Japanese army attacked Zhengzhou, and the 85th Army led by Wu Shaozhou held Zhengzhou and fought fiercely with the Japanese army for a day and a night.
In Dengfeng, Songxian, Luoyang and other places, Wu Shaozhou's troops fought fierce battles with the Japanese army, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
The Japanese army raging on our territory is at the end of its power, but they are still unwilling to give up and continue to fight back frantically against our people. In April 1945, the Japanese Sakagaki Division and the Guards Division attempted to attack the Funiu Mountains in order to occupy Tongguan and then threaten Xi'an.
Wu Shaozhou led the soldiers of the 85th Army to garrison near Tantou and Miaozi in the west of Song County, Henan, monitoring the enemy troops in Lushan and Song County, and resolutely guarding the key points of Funiu Mountain.
On 29 April, Wu Shaozhou learned that tens of thousands of Japanese troops had invaded from Nanyang to Zhenping County and would arrive at Xixiakou in the afternoon of the same day.
At the meeting, Wu Shaozhou ordered Zhang Zhenkun of the 23rd Division to lead the 68th Regiment to advance from Xixiakou to Neixiang to delay the movement of the Japanese army; Huang Zihua led the main force of the 23rd Division to build fortifications on the highlands southwest of Xixiakou and waited for the enemy to go deeper; Li Shouzheng led the 55th Division to build fortifications in the northwest highlands of Xixiakou, and formed an angle with Huang Zihua's troops; The Tang Kuifu regiment, which was located in the temple south of Funiu, occupied the old boundary ridge and waited for the order to attack south.
Under Wu Shaozhou's careful deployment, a pocket formation was formed on the south, north, and west sides, and as long as the Japanese army broke in, it would be wiped out!
The Japanese army swaggered into the inner countryside, they thought that the squadron would be indifferent, but they did not expect to encounter a strong resistance here. On May 5, the Japanese army continued to advance westward, but was blocked by the 68th Regiment of the 23rd Division in the inner countryside and could only stay here.
On 9 May, Japanese tanks advanced east of the West Gorge, while infantry launched a fierce assault on the heights north of the West Gorge. In this fierce battle, Li Shouzheng of the 55th Division and the 69th Regiment of the 23rd Division were ambushed in the fortifications, and they immediately attacked and attacked the Japanese army.
Seeing this, the Japanese commander brandished his command knife and ordered the infantry to charge towards the heights. However, amid the sound of grenades and gunfire, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers fell one by one, and then rolled down to the high ground.
The infantry charge failed, and the Japanese commander ordered the tank troops to charge towards the Xixiakou stockade. However, the anti-aircraft artillery team had already been in good position, and their shooting was accurate, and in less than 15 minutes, the Japanese tanks were defeated by the squadron.
The Japanese infantry and tank units were routed, but they still refused to give up and organized again.
Second, the third shock. With each impact, the Japanese army had to add several more paralyzed tanks.
After four days of fierce fighting, the Japanese army still could not move forward, but was destroyed by Wu Shaozhou's troops in a row, killing dozens of tanks and killing hundreds of Japanese soldiers. This battle proved that the squadron would resolutely resist and defend the country's territory and dignity in the face of Japanese aggression.
Wu Shaozhou decided to adopt the strategy of "luring the enemy into depth" and trapped the Japanese troops in the mountains north and south of Chongyangdian, and through the guidance of the field command post, the 85th Army's combat defense artillery and the 78th Army and the 43rd Division blocked the Japanese army's troops after being heavily bombed.
Huang Zihua led the 23rd Division and Li Shouzheng led the 55th Division to attack Chongyangdian from the north and south at the same time, and the north and south were flanked, beating the Japanese army dizzy and fleeing in all directions. Fierce fighting continued until the early hours of the next day, and night and melee battles resumed on both sides until the Japanese withdrew from the Dinh River.
Subsequently, the Japanese army was intercepted by Liao Yunzhou's division, and did not gain a firm foothold until it retreated to the Hexi Heights at the mouth of the West Gorge. Wu Shaozhou's strategy succeeded in trapping the Japanese army and laid the foundation for expanding the results of the battle.
In the battles of Xixiakou and Chongyangdian, the 85th Army led by Wu Shaozhou showed strong combat effectiveness, successfully annihilating more than 2,000 Japanese troops, capturing more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers, and capturing a large number of Japanese soldiers
As a result, Wu Shaozhou was once again awarded the Order of Yunlu of the Third Class, which proved his bravery and military talent.
In terms of command relationship, Bai Chongxi asked Wu Shaozhou to lead the 85th Army to defend the gate of Hankou, and the other three armies to make mobile forces on the outer line to control the main force of the Gui system to respond on the inner line.
But he knew that after the establishment of the 12th Corps, the command power would fall into the hands of Chiang Kai-shek, so he hoped that Wu Shaozhou's 85th Army would not be incorporated into Huang Wei's 12th Corps.
However, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Wu Shaozhou to lead his troops to rush to Mengcheng, preparing to use Mengcheng as the core territory and fight a decisive battle with our army. At this time, the Zhongye Fourth Column and the Huaye Third Column commanded by Chen Geng occupied Suxian, encircling the defenders of Xuzhou.
After Chiang Kai-shek learned the news of the loss of Suxian, he ordered Qiu Qingquan and Sun Yuanliang to recover Suxian, and ordered Li Yannian's corps to go north from Guzhen to respond, and at the same time ordered Huang Wei's corps to immediately attack Suxian and recapture Suxian.
After receiving Chiang Kai-shek's secret order, Huang Wei did not dare to slack off in the slightest, he decisively abandoned the original "Mengcheng Battle Plan", and urged Wu Shaozhou to immediately launch an attack in the direction of Suxian.
After receiving Huang Wei's order, Wu Shaozhou urgently summoned all the regimental commanders and above officers to discuss how to formulate a combat strategy while taking into account Bai Chongxi's opposition and not angering Huang Wei.
At that time, Wu Shaozhou's troops had bottomed out of grain and grass, and new supplies had not yet arrived, coupled with the fact that they learned from intelligence that Huang Baitao's corps had been surrounded, and Suxian County was also occupied by the People's Liberation Army, which made Wu Shaozhou feel pressured, and the morale of his subordinates was even lower, and he was unwilling to go to Xuzhou to fight.
The march of Huang Wei's corps was relatively smooth, all the way to the east of Zhaojiaji. However, at this time, they found that the People's Liberation Army had set up a blocking front on the line from Dongpingji in the east, through Nanpingji, and to Suntuan in the west.
Faced with this situation, Huang Wei reported this information to Chiang Kai-shek, and on the other hand, ordered the soldiers to launch an attack on Nanpingji, intending to force the crossing of the Hun River. After a day of fierce fighting, Huang Wei finally captured Nanpingji, which also made Huang Wei extremely proud.
At this time, the 85th Army under the command of Wu Shaozhou had also left Mengcheng and began to move north, arriving at Zhaojiaji on the south bank of the Huhe River. On December 12, 1948, ** and ** issued the "Letter of Urging Huang Wei to Surrender Immediately".
However, after Huang Wei received this "Letter of Persuasion", he was very angry, and even tore it to shreds, resolutely refusing to surrender.
On the evening of December 13, our army launched the final annihilation battle against Huang Wei's corps. In this battle, the General Front Committee added the Huaye Column to the Southern Group and placed it under the unified command of Chen Shiyu.
On December 14, the South Group successfully occupied the southern section of the enemy's temporary airfield and the Jiangudui position south of Shuangduiji, completely exposing Huang Wei's corps to our eyes.
Subsequently, on the afternoon of December 15, regiments at all levels pursued the victory and continued to launch a fierce attack on the enemy. The East and West Groups broke through the enemy's lines of defense made by cars and joined up with the South Group.
The three groups worked closely together and quickly destroyed the command center of the enemy troops. At this time, Huang Wei and Hu Lian decided that they could no longer hold on and decided to break through, which was their only chance to save their forces.
Huang Wei originally planned to act in unison at 6 o'clock in the evening, but Chiang Kai-shek sent Wang Shuming to Shuangduiji by plane at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of this day to announce: "It is forbidden to break through at night, and the next morning with the cooperation of the air force!" ”
However, Huang Wei replied loudly: "Can't wait! He then gave the order to prepare for action. This was the first and last time in Huang Wei's military career to disobey Chiang Kai-shek's orders.
With Huang Wei's order, the armies and divisions that had been impatient for a long time began to move, and the position was in chaos, with the sound of guns and grenades heard from time to time. However, as time passed, Huang Wei found that the communication network had been completely destroyed, and he could not order the rectification of the ...... at all
During the Battle of Huaihai, PLA commanders noticed the chaos within Huang Wei's corps and concluded that Huang Wei was about to escape. They ordered Huang Wei to be captured alive, and in an instant, the sound of gunfire and killing cries resounded in the sky.
The soldiers of the 12th Corps fled in a hurry. At this time, Wang Yuanzhi, the commander of the 11th Division, came to report: "I received an order from the military seat, and I implore the three bosses to get on the chariot, and our 11th Division is responsible for protecting the breakthrough!" ”
Huang Wei looked at the panicked soldiers, looked at Hu Lian and Wu Shaozhou helplessly, and said, "Let's go, let's go!" Then, Huang Wei, Hu Lian and Wu Shaozhou each boarded three tanks and quickly advanced towards the Yuhuangmiao River Bay.
However, the pontoon bridge was crushed by the tanks ridden by Huang Wei and Hu Lian, and Wu Shaozhou's tank instantly overturned in the river. At 12 p.m. on December 15, 1948, the battle for the attack on Shuangduiji ended victoriously.
Our army completely annihilated the Huang Wei Corps, captured alive the corps commander Huang Wei, deputy commander and commander of the 85th Army Wu Shaozhou and others, only the deputy commander of the corps Hu Lian escaped. At this point, Huang Wei's corps was completely wiped out.
Wu Shaozhou put forward 2 clever plans, and decided to grant an amnesty in advance. With the end of the Huaihai Campaign, the People's Liberation Army won a brilliant victory.
Checkmate! Huang Wei and Wu Shaozhou both had expressions of regret on their faces, it turned out that this move made them lose everything.
We are not opponents on the battlefield, and we are defeated on the chessboard. I am convinced, willing to bow to the wind! "This is Huang Wei's tribute to ***. "Patriotism is in no particular order, and contributions are made sooner or later. "
This sentence expresses his respect and appreciation for all those who have contributed to the country. ** With leniency towards prisoners, they were sent to the war criminals management center for ideological education and labor reform, so that they could change their minds and serve our army.
Huang Wei refused to reform, but *** did not get angry, but influenced him in other ways. Wu Shaozhou cherished this opportunity for transformation, always kept to himself, and actively cooperated with labor and study.
1.When the Korean War broke out, the whole country launched the initiative of "resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, defending the homeland and defending the country." Wu Shaozhou, who had served in the 85th Army and was familiar with U.S. weapons and equipment, put forward two effective strategies against the U.S. military: "One is to conduct night raids, and the other is close combat, using trenches to covertly approach enemy troops and conduct close-range shooting and blasting." ”
He also asked Yang Botao to write a research report of more than 60,000 words, "A Study on the Tactics of the US Army," which played a vital role in helping the volunteers understand and attack the US military's strategy and tactics.
In 1952, in view of Wu Shaozhou's good performance in the war criminals and his outstanding contributions in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, ** special instructions: "Amnesty for Wu Shaozhou!" ”
After the liberation, Wu Shaozhou settled in Changsha and supported himself by making yarn and weaving cloth at home. When Chen Mingren visited his relatives in Hunan, he learned that Wu Shaozhou's eyesight was not good, and he immediately reported it to the relevant departments, advocating that Wu Shaozhou be given proper care.
Therefore, Wu Shaozhou was organizationally arranged to work as a management worker in the Changsha Weaving Factory, and soon hired him as a librarian of the Hunan Provincial Museum of Culture and History. On May 10, 1965, Wu Shaozhou unfortunately died of a stroke at the age of 62.